REMINDER: IMPORTANT: Rampdown / stabilization of 8u20 for milestone M2

[Kevin Rushforth]

As a reminder:  We are approaching the M2 freeze as described in #5 
below. All approved (see #4) changesets for the M2 milestone build 
should be pushed by 11:00 PM Pacific time on Sunday, Feb 23.

-- Kevin


Kevin Rushforth wrote:
> Hi OpenJFX committers,
>
> After this coming Monday's FX build, which will go into 8u20-b02, we 
> will start ramping down for our M2 milestone build (aka 8u20-b03). 
> This particular milestone is important for the embedded platform. As a 
> result, you will need to observe the following rules for any commit.
>
> 1) Sunday, Feb 16 at 11:00 pm Pacific time:  All planned changes for 
> b02 should be in (our test build is scheduled to start at 11pm that 
> day). The usual rules apply for changesets pushed prior to that time.
>
>
> 2) All changesets that are pushed after 11:00 pm Pacific time on 
> Sunday, Feb 16 will need additional scrutiny to go in. In addition to 
> your normal reviewer you must get a "+1" from one of the following, 
> even if you would normally do a post-commit review:
>
>   Daniel Blaukopf
>   Steve Northover
>   Kevin Rushforth
>   Lisa Selle
>
>
> 3) Monday, Feb 17:  We will do our usual "(In)Sanity Testing" and then 
> hand off the bits to release engineering for 8u20-b02.
>
>
> 4) Week of Feb 17 - 14:  Bug fixes can go in subject to the extra 
> approval noted above, but please hold off making any risky changes 
> until after M2.
>
>
> 5) Sunday, Feb 23 at 11:00 pm Pacific time:  We will do a soft freeze, 
> during which time we will be locked except for critical issues 
> discovered during testing, for b03 (milestone M2).
>
>
> 6) Monday, Feb 24:  We will do our usual "(In)Sanity Testing", with 
> extra emphasis on testing anything that changed after b02, and then 
> hand off the bits to release engineering for 8u20-b03.
>
>
> 7) I will send a subsequent announcement as to when the repo is "open 
> for normal business".
>
>
> Thank you.
>
> -- Kevin
>